3D Segmentation Networks for Excessive Numbers of Classes: Distinct Bone Segmentation in Upper Bodies

Eva Schnider, Antal Horváth, Georg Rauter, Azhar Zam, Magdalena Müller-Gerbl, Philippe C. Cattin

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Abstract

Segmentation of distinct bones plays a crucial role in diagnosis, planning, navigation, and the assessment of bone metastasis. It supplies semantic knowledge to visualisation tools for the planning of surgical interventions and the education of health professionals. Fully supervised segmentation of 3D data using Deep Learning methods has been extensively studied for many tasks but is usually restricted to distinguishing only a handful of classes. With 125 distinct bones, our case includes many more labels than typical 3D segmentation tasks. For this reason, the direct adaptation of most established methods is not possible. This paper discusses the intricacies of training a 3D segmentation network in a many-label setting and shows necessary modifications in network architecture, loss function, and data augmentation. As a result, we demonstrate the robustness of our method by automatically segmenting over one hundred distinct bones simultaneously in an end-to-end learnt fashion from a CT-scan.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMachine Learning in Medical Imaging - 11th International Workshop, MLMI 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Proceedings
EditorsMingxia Liu, Chunfeng Lian, Pingkun Yan, Xiaohuan Cao
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages40-49
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030598600
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event11th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2020, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru
Duration: Oct 4 2020Oct 4 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12436 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2020, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityLima
Period10/4/2010/4/20

Keywords

  • 3D segmentation
  • Deep learning
  • Many label segmentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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